tell us of mid life crises you haev witnessed

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it ttends to be new car
leather jcaket
divorce ime

My best friend's exH (slimeball to start with - don't know why she married him) started having sunbeds and colonic irrigation

She began to get suspicious when he was sporting a George Hamilton orange tan.
He is/was vile.

Boco: I'm your long-lost sister because (1) your husband has a yearning for facial hair (2) your father went for a grand piano rather than a motorbike or (3) your life has dwindled to crepey cleavage and 'Is This It'? 2 out of 3 would be interesting 3 out of 3 would be positively creepy and I'll invite you for our next family Christmas get-together!

I share Issymum's pain too. We are clearly a Triumvirate of some kind.

DD1's best mate's dad went off with a 22 year old last year and the most pathetic thing was he kept insisting it wasn't a midlife crisis. He reappeared at a school do wearing the most inappropriate shirt for a craggy 49 year old you can imagine.

Mr Inferior has accepted he is no longer an Angry Young Man. I pointed out he was also too young to be a Grumpy Old Man, so he has agreed that he is a Peevish MiddleAged Man.

A mate of DH's took up football at the age of 40, the age at which most people stop. The rest of his team were in their early to mid-20's.

He told us in all seriousness that he was finding it a bit of a problem but only because the doctor had said that he had "congenitally weak ankles" which prevented him from being a better player.

Issymum mainly because i'm concerned that my dad is also your dad - sisters in a biological way, although i do share your other points too.

My dad bought a piano and decided to become a writer and quit his job. He ran off to france to find himself wiht a younger woman. He has started to wear boden pull ons with jaunty patterns so he looks like he's forgotten to get dressed.

Cleavage? - after years of breastfeeding 2 wrung out teabags spring to mind.

Dp isn't likely to go down the beardy route, but he certainly experiments with stubble. And he is always peevish.

Ooh lots of crises round here, all that dwindling power and desire to pump it up again with anything that comes to hand - leather jackets, faster cars, bigger trainers, younger partner and probably bigger tash too.

We should do this though. I'm with the weeping into papery cleavage brigade but we should look up, wipe away our tears and take a page out of their books - go get boob jobs, big hair-dos and white teeth.

My dad decided to become a weaver. He bought a loom and everything. He also swopped his business for a double decker bus to travel round the world in. I LOVED his mid life crisis.

My brother, Cub Pack Leader, shagging Brown Owl . Both married with kids, had to leave the pack, obviously. Not really the done thing is it, example to the boys and all that!

My dad took up wood carving - pissed me off as i was so skint at the time and he spent £300 on professional equipment that he never used.

Shortly afterwards, he started going to African drumming workshops.

My favourite was the breathing workshops he spent a fortune on. I always assumed breathing was one of the basics and you just kind of do it as you go along, but apparently its not that simple

My dad had quite a dodgy mid-life crisis too. Started shagging the next door neighbour, bit close to home me thinks, bound to have got caught out . My mum forgave him and took him back, then told me she thought it was possibly her fault because she had never given my father oral sex . Far too much information thanks mum .

ew god yes

Sandyballs - your brother, your father. . . what's going on? they're out of control.
lol @ brown owl.

example to the cubs
EEW they wenre tdoig ti in front of them

I'm glad that I have identified a species with the PMAM.

There's also a brand of quite benevolent mid-life crisis as well, as demonstrated by my own PMAM. He has taken up gardening. A friend's DH went round the world - on a carefully funded jaunt from which he returned none the more skint.

Ah a BMC (benevolent midlife crisis)! MI, Boco and others let's have your thoughts about how we can enjoy a BMC. And it has to be more than just buying stuff and Botox.

I had a good bmc at the age of 39 when I met a new man (we were both divorcees), had a new baby and got re-married.

Found a (fairly) respectable way to hang out with people younger than me again

My XH.
Ran off with skiprat 23 years younger than him.
Drove ludicrously expensive sports car.
Put BLONDE TIPS in his markedly thinning hair.
Spent inordinate amounts of time in the gym.

Tipped up here not so long ago in.........SKINNY JEANS
The arsehole is 49 years old FFS!!

DP is PMAM too - has manisfest itself in signing up for the Great North Run (going to be a great north walk if he doesn't get some SERIOUS training in...) and going out and spending 200 squid on clothes (if you knew my dp you would know this is a scary amount of money to spend on clothes.....)

ahh, i may not be too popular then, i am dh's mid life crisis, older chap, younger wife type of thing but we have been together for 7 years, married for 5 1/2 and he has just declared that it might be nice to have one more baby!!!!

We had a chat about mid life crisis' the other night and it transpires that he is pertrified by motorbikes, is too much of a skinflint to buy a sportscar (he can borrow mine anyhow!) and has had a goatee for yonks!!!

OMG at skinyn jeans

I am writing a novel as part of my BMC, of course.

Blackduck, if Mr Inferior spent £200 on clothes I would be afraid - very, very afraid.

My dh knows an accountant who, on turning 40, left his job and wife and bought a motorbike and a goat farm in the pyrenees.